The Nigerian military says troops have freed a hundred and seventy eight hostages held by the terror group.
Figures released by the army show that a large number of the freed were children.
A 100 of them to be exact. 67 women and 10 men were also among the freed.
Spokesman Colonel Tukur Gusau said in an emailed statement that a Boko Haram commander had also been captured and several militant camps were cleared around the town of Bama, about 70 km southeast of the state capital Maiduguri.
This success comes after a spate of attacks by Boko Haram fighters in recent days, including the attack on Malari, a village in Borno state early Sunday.
Boko Haram has been waging a six-year insurgency in the northeast of Africa's biggest economy in an attempt to establish an Islamist state adhering to strict sharia law.
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